She said stupid right-wing shit on Twitter and now the show is cancelled. It sucks because now TV is just going to become more unwatchable than it already is.
That assumes the show Roseanne was making TV less unwatchable.
Good on Disney for shutting that crap right down, I say. Roseanne Barr should return to the has-been obscurity that she deserves.
Roseanne actually was a very progressive show, and was great. They revived the show knowing that Roseanne was a psychopath, their only problem now is that she said more anti-semitic, racist, and anti-islam shit on a public forum. None of that was reflected in the show. Shutting down talented people for their dogshit opinions accomplishes nothing. They did this to Gilbert Gottfried too after 9/11 and Kathy Griffin after her stunt. Basically, this is just going to motivate the corporate overlords (who don’t care about progressive values, by the way) to go with safer people to create shows rather than just talented people. And when “safe” gets put ahead of talent that always leads to shittier entertainment. If all artists throughout history got de-platformed the second they made offensive drug-fueled psychotic comments then we’d have almost no good media. Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, John Lennon, Joan Rivers, and a million others that I could list would’ve been shut down before giving us valuable work. By the way, I don’t consider Kathy Griffin’s stuff valuable work. She’s not funny at all, but she was in the same situation where she made a mistake and now no one will touch her. Her mistake was less insulting than Roseanne’s in my opinion, but it’s the same problem.